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Though We Do Not Now Think On The Lines Of

the theology of the seventeenth century, for students of Scottish Church history Forbes' Irenicum has a certain documentary interest ; and this translation of the First Book of......

Advisory Ben. By E. V. Lucas. (methuen. 7s. 6d. Net.)

Mr. E. V. Lucas' elaboration of his idea is not as good as the idea itself. His heroine, " Advisory Ben," otherwise Miss Benita Staveley, opens an office, which, like a certain......

It Occasionally Amuses Mr. E. F. Benson To Try To

make his readers' flesh creep. Such is his aim in thii collection of short stories. The two best, however, are exceedingly amusing, one being a very plain-spoken story about a......

Religion.

The author of this thoughtful and suggestive book is under no delusion as to the present religious situation :— " Christendom is leaving the Church. In some parts of the world......

Fiction;

MR. SWINNERTONA " NOCTURNE " was a tour de force of .intensity and com- pression : the emotional experience of a lifetime gathered into the events of a single night. In Young......

The Ends Of The Lives Of Selfish And Self-centred People

are so unpleasant that Mr. Maxwell discounts the interest of his readers by beginning his novel with an account of the senility of his two principal characters. It may, however,......

As The Whirlwind Passeth. By Mary Gaunt. (john. Murray. 7s -

(id. net.) A very interesting story of the founders of the settlement of Australia. It can be recommended to anyone interested in our overseas Dominions.......

Thomas De Cobham : Bishop Of Worcester, 1317-1327- By E.

H. Pearce, Litt.D. (S.P.C.K. 15s.) This careful study of a fourteenth-century bishop, by the present occupant of his historical see, while a labour of love on the part of the......